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WebOct 31, 2022 · World Tsunami Day 2022: History. In the past 100 years, 58 of them have claimed more than 260,000 lives. The highest number of deaths in that period was in the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004 (around 227,000 fatalities in 14 countries, with Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India and Thailand being hardest hit).

WebWorld Trade Organization (WTO), international organization established to supervise and liberalize world trade. The WTO is the successor to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), which was created in 1947 in the expectation that it would soon be replaced by a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) to be called the International Trade …

WebWhen the First World War happened, it made the world unstable. The next international conflict was World War II and it was worse. Adolf Hitler, a leader in Germany, had good ideas for the country but he wanted to take over all of Europe.

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WebJun 14, 2018 · On July 20, 1944, during World War II (1939-45), a plot by senior-level German military officials to murder Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) and then take control of his government failed when a bomb ...

WebOct 19, 2022 · World Wide Web (WWW), byname the Web, the leading information retrieval service of the Internet (the worldwide computer network). The Web gives users access to a vast array of documents that are connected to each other by means of hypertext or hypermedia links—i.e., hyperlinks, electronic connections that link related pieces of …

WebOct 27, 2009 · Originally known as Decoration Day, Memorial Day started in the years following the Civil War and became an official federal holiday in 1971 to honor those who served and died in wars.

WebApr 7, 2022 · by World History Edu · Published April 7, 2022 · Updated April 7, 2022 Spanning from around 321 BC to 185 BC, the Mauryan Empire was the second Magadha dynasty. With its cultural and political hub at Pataliputra, the …

WebAug 24, 2021 · READ MORE: The Long, Winding Road to 9/11 1. The bomb blasted a massive crater several stories deep underneath the World Trade Center. Loaded with around 1,300 pounds of urea nitrate (an explosive ...